An Adventure

I am beginning an adventure that will keep me from posting for A time, but expect to post from SEA before too long. Perhaps I'll have something worthwhile to say about Buddhism.

On the 6th of February I expect to land in Bangkok tired and jet-lagged. I'll arrive without a visa. That's a bit like me showing up on your front porch unannounced and expecting to stay. Still, I have high hopes that the Thais will let me stay awhile. Without leaving BKK I intend to get a flight to Chiang Rai and begin to get comfortable there.

I think that Chiang Rai area gets smoky in March and stays that way for over a month. Might go as far as Vietnam to get better air during that time.

Sold my nice little Suzuki and expect to get a rental car today. This JT house is just about empty of furniture and belongings. I've sold and give away much, but will still leave a lot in storage. I'll probably put this computer there tomorrow.

I don't see much beautiful adventure shinning through that which I have just written. Could I have begun to doubt my capacity for adventure? Whatever my writing or my capacity, I feel satisfied and energized. I feel pleasant anticipation know how likely it is that I will soon be surrounded by the novelty and beauty of Thailand and the rest of SEA.

The prospect of shopping for used first grade(or kindergarten) textbooks with which to begin to learn to read and write Thai pleases me.

I wish you pleasure, energy, and satisfaction. I also wish you health, love, money, and time to enjoy them.

Be Pleased

 Flowers can be pleasing.

Intention Affirmations

~ I intend to make an amend to myself this day.
~ I propose to identify an amend I desire to make to myself this month.
~ I am ready to learn to treat my forearms with greater care and gentleness here
~ I intend to give abundant time and energy to satisfying a worthy desire if mine here and now.
~ Desire is an important motivator of mine right here.
~ I intent right here to avoid being motivated by fear.
~ I am ready, willing and able to learn to act promptly in face of my fear here and now.
~ I intend to judge myself with mercy this month.
~ I intend to act promptly enough on a well considered insight right here.
~ I intend to take note of a contact with the best within me right now.
~ I am improving my inner home this moment.
~ I am ready. willing, and able to practice praising myself this winter.
~ I seek to praise myself a bit more right now.
~ I propose to simplify my life right here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to acknowledge that I am in the midst of a significant situation right now.
~ I am read, willing, and able to learn to know that I am the responsible source of my situation now.

I Affirm

~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to aim to eat here and now only when I am in a state of peace and good appetite
~ I propose to better know what it means to feed my spirit here and now.
~ I choose to earn a bit more income this week.
~ I propose to benefit a bit more by scheduling my time a bit better here.
~ I choose good doings here and now.
~ I propose to consider the pertinent facts right now.
~ I propose to allow myself good cheer and enthusiasm today.
~ I am willing to be where I feel energized today.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to to learn to treat myself with love and respect this day.
~ I am ready, willing and able to acknowledge that I prefer active, face to face dialogue this week.
~ I nurture useful and productive conversation right here.
~ I propose to progress to better understanding here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to consider now what it means to progress to better understanding.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to eat plenty of fresh vegetables now.
~ I propose to benefit today by by taking a step beyond the step beyond this day.
~ I am willing to observe myself taking a step beyond the step beyond.
~ I am ready to learn to consider how I am creative here.

Prefect and Progress

To progress and perfect we act.

Is it wrong to do less and less until all is done?

My Posts

Hello kind reader,

You may have noticed that I have been posting less than usual.

I Intend to post more and better in the future.

For now, however, I'll be posting even less.

I am preparing to travel again and expect to be our if the country for several months. I may head for Southeast Asia first. Wonder how long it will take to learn Burmese and Vietnamese. Probably not much linger that it will take to learn Malay and Cambodian.

As I remember it took me about 30 years to learn to defend myself in Spanish. Well, back to posting.

Once I get somewhere, I intend to tell you where I am and then begin to post on topics which interest me and I think might interest you. When you tell me in "comments' below what interests you I find it easier to post on that which interests you.

Visitors to These Posts

The largest numbers of recent viewers of Exoteric posts have come from the following countries: 
Germany,
France,
Russia,
Ukraine,
Latvia!

What happened to the Canadians and the Irish? 

"Word"

Years ago A number of good people took classes with me using email. A popular class was called "Word."  You may be old enough to remember the "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power" feature in the magazine Readers Digest. "Word" was a just a bit like that feature. "Word" was about definition, meaning, mind, understanding, power, and the like.

The sixty or so students interested in "Word" were of a variety of backgrounds and ages. Ages ranged from the early twenties to the  late seventies with a couple of outliers.

'Love' was a popular word among nearly all of  students. Those email lessons were not love letters, but they were sent with the aim of respectfully nurturing their readers.

Recently while thinning my archives I looked at a transcript of a "Word" lesson that was largely my response to  student responses to an earlier 'love' "Word."

I had been please by enthusiastic student response. Nearly every response mentioned feelings, but nit one mentioned emotions! There was a wide variety of takes on those feelings and their relevance. Most students agreed that there were two or more kinds of love. Words used often were: I, ego, personal, help, action, and sex. No one mentioned drugs or rock and roll. Neither did anyone mention dominance, submission, nurturence, lust, fear, God, mother, child, wife, husband, or country! Go figure. They did mention pleasure and pleasant, but not joy. I remember that nearly every one noted kinds of love without being specific, Some mentioned parts of love with out being specifying any one part. No one mentioned Christ, Jesus or the Bible. All this may say more about student attitude toward email and me than anything else.

I mention these happenings with the thought that I may post on words in the future. 'Agape' may be among those words. Any other suggestions.